Send modern/Netty ping? 1.7+ status handshake ping

[deathcap]

The FE01 ping although called a "legacy" ping is supported on 1.4.4+ onwards, including 1.5.2, 1.6.4, and the Netty-based (protocol rewrite) Minecraft server versions 1.7.10, 1.8.9, and 1.9 snapshots — nonetheless, there is a new ping using the new Netty-ish protocol, involving some complicated encoding and STATUS handshake with a set_protocol packet.

Should node-minecraft-ping support this ping? It is already implemented and works well in https://github.com/PrismarineJS/node-minecraft-protocol/blob/master/src/ping.js

  client.once('server_info', function(packet) {
    var data = JSON.parse(packet.response);
    var start = Date.now();
    client.once('ping', function(packet) {
      data.latency = Date.now() - start;
      cb(null, data);
      client.end();
    });
    client.write('ping', {time: [0, 0]});
  });

  client.on('state', function(newState) {
    if(newState === states.STATUS)
      client.write('ping_start', {});
  });

  client.on('connect', function() {
    client.write('set_protocol', {
      protocolVersion: options.protocolVersion,
      serverHost: options.host,
      serverPort: options.port,
      nextState: 1
    });
    client.state = states.STATUS;
  });

users can just use node-minecraft-protocol instead, perhaps node-minecraft-ping could use it via node-minecraft-protocol, but this adds another dependency (for clients which will likely already have their own node-minecraft-protocol direct dependency). Not clear if it is worth it, or even worth supporting this so-called modern ping altogether. At least for what I'm interested in (https://github.com/deathcap/node-minecraft-protocol-auto automatic protocol negotiation), FE01 ping does everything I want and more.